From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2010-12-04T05:07:52+09:00
Subject: Re: cast object to object


On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:59 PM, David E. wrote:
> 
> Robert, thanks. That is the concept. However, I am getting a weird error
> 
> EXCEPTION:wrong constant name FireWatir::Link
> 
> after inputting
> 
>      class_name = 'FireWatir::Link'
>      dave = Object.const_get(class_name).new
> 
> Is my "class_name" formatted correctly?


Object.const_get doesn't parse composite names like "FireWatir::Link".  You would have to handle that in two steps:

dave = Object.const_get('FireWatir').const_get('Link').new